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Claverton, Somerset

Claverton is a small village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) east of Bath at the southern end of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in Somerset, England.

Claverton, Somerset
Claverton, Somerset · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Claverton is a small village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) east of Bath at the southern end of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in Somerset, England. The parish has a population of 115.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Claverton, Somerset

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Bath

    The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, England. Bath received its royal charter in 1966 as Bath University of Technology, along with a number of other institutions following the Robbins Report.

    1.2 km · university in Bath, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bath Abbey

    The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Bath Abbey, is a parish church of the Church of England and former Benedictine monastery in Bath, Somerset, England. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries; major restoration work was carried out by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s.

    3.4 km · church building in Bath, Somerset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pulteney Bridge

    Pulteney Bridge is a bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with land in Bathwick which Sir William Pulteney and his family wished to develop.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed bridge in Bath, Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Roman Baths

    The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England. A temple was constructed on the site between 60 and 70 AD in the first few decades of Roman Britain.

    3.4 km · museum and site in Bath, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Theatre Royal

    The Theatre Royal in Bath, England, was built in 1805. A Grade II* listed building, it has been described by the Theatres Trust as "One of the most important surviving examples of Georgian theatre architecture".

    3.7 km · theatre in Bath, Somerset, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Herschel Museum of Astronomy

    The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981. It is located in a town house that was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline.

    3.9 km · museum in Bath, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Aquae Sulis

    Aquae Sulis was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia, established in the first few years after the Romans arrived in Britain. It is situated where the Fosse Way crosses the River Avon, in an area of naturally occurring hot springs.

    3.4 km · town in Roman Britain on the site of Bath, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Queen Square

    Queen Square is a square of Georgian houses in the city of Bath, England. Queen Square is the first element in "the most important architectural sequence in Bath", which includes the Circus and the Royal Crescent.

    3.7 km · square of Georgian houses in the city of Bath, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Fashion Museum

    The Fashion Museum was housed in the Assembly Rooms in Bath, Somerset, England. The collection was started by Doris Langley Moore, who gave her collection of costumes to the city of Bath in 1963.

    3.7 km · museum of costume in Bath, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Prior Park Landscape Garden

    Prior Park Landscape Garden surrounding the Prior Park estate south of Bath, Somerset, England, was designed in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, and is now owned by the National Trust. The garden was influential in defining the style known as the "English landscape garden" in continental Europe.

    2.5 km · Grade I listed garden in Bath, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Claverton, Somerset

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 28 km · Cardiff (CWL), 72 km · Birmingham (BHX), 126 km
Stations
Bath Spa railway station, 3.2 km · Freshford railway station, 3.9 km · Bath bus station, 3.3 km · Limpley Stoke railway station, 3.1 km · Hampton Row Halt railway station, 2.9 km
  • Cardiff → Claverton, Somerset
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £8–11
  • London → Claverton, Somerset
    152 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Claverton, Somerset
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Claverton, Somerset

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Claverton, Somerset. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextBristol — with its many attractions situated around the floating harbour and Avon Gorge, is 12 miles drive or 15 minutes train journey away, and makes an excellent day trip from Bath.

From Wikivoyage: Bath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    104 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    166 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    503 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    538 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    539 km

If you know how people move in Claverton, Somerset – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Claverton, Somerset

Claverton, Somerset is 22 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bathcity in Somerset, England, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Winsleyvillage in Wiltshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Bathfordvillage in Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK2.6 km
  • Freshfordvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England3.9 km
  • Limpley Stokevillage and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Batheastonvillage and civil parish in Somerset, England, UK3.3 km